Legal Aid Society helps domestic violence victims

11:43 PM,
Sep. 30, 2013

DarKenya W. Waller

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DarKenya W. Waller

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month brings attention to domestic violence every October, but it's a problem the Legal Aid Society helps fight through legal assistance on a daily basis.

There were 82,014 reported cases of domestic violence in Tennessee last year. Tennessee domestic violence programs help as many victims as possible. According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence's "Domestic Violence Counts 2011" report, in one day in 2011 these programs served 1,126 victims. Of those, 441 found refuge in emergency shelters or transitional housing and 685 received ...